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FernandoPR
FernandoPR

Reputation: 123

Android emulator's GPS location gives wrong time

I am testing an Android GPS tracking application in the Emulator and I am running into a problem when trying to figure out if the last known location is stale or not.

Getting the system time gives me the correct time, but when I call location.getTime() for the last known location the time returned is off by a few hours. I did some more testing and found out that every time I send a GPS location from the Emulator control tab in Eclipse (similar to geo fix), the location's time is advanced by one second. This makes no sense at all! I would appreciate any insights into this problem.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2216

Answers (2)

Pragati Singh
Pragati Singh

Reputation: 2523

This bug has been fixed in the ToT dev branch for API 26. We will cherry-pick this fix to other branches and hopefully the public available system images will see the bug fix in the near future.

If any issue persists, please report at Google issue tracker they will re-open to examine.

Upvotes: 0

bbodenmiller
bbodenmiller

Reputation: 3181

As discussed this appears to be a bug in the emulator (I was able to repeat it as well). I filed a bug report at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=27272 if anyone wants to add details, star it, and/or follow along.

Upvotes: 3

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